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"Why shouldn't I?" She asked Nathan. She then turned to Beckett, "Knock yourself out."
She waved her staff, letting a small stream of bluish-gray smoke to radiate from the orb at the top and flow into Beckett's hand where it forms into a flask similar to Toko's.
"It's enchanted so that never runs out." She smirks.

Beckett drinked it, "Aaah...quite refreshing. Many thanks," complimented Beckett

Nathan shrugged. "If this girl is right about the whole, dying here, you die in real life thing, I'd rather not be running around drunk, susceptible to every last deadly thing." He says

Beckett handed the drink back to Toko, "Very well," he said

"I can fight. Beckett appears to be able to. That girl with the sword prolly can. The drunk might be able to use that staff for combat. We can survive if we work together."

Beckett smiled, "I'm glad we're seeing eye to eye," he said

OOC: Beckett can keep the flask. She made it with magic for him.

"I prefer the term 'witch' over 'drunk', thank you, and my name is Toko." She glared.
"I'm not one for fighting, but I can if I must." Snow chimed in.
Saber stood by a tree, she could fight as well, rather well actually, she jsut didn't want to bring attention to herself to say so.

Nathan shrugged, creating a fireball in his hand. "I'd probably kill off everyone on accident." He joked, tossing the fireball from hand to hand.

"I'd be a great flask," said Beckett

Nathan looked at him, confused as to what he just said. "Did you just say you'd be a great flask?" He asked him.

Beckett face-palmed himself, "So, do you think anything here wants to actually help us, or does everyone here want us dead?" asked Beckett

Nathan shrugged, a huge smirk on his face. "No. Though, I don't know why someone would be crazy enough to think that a flask would be talking." He joked.

Beckett chuckled a little, "To be fair, I hit my head on the way here," he claimed

Nathan laughed at Beckett and walked away, bored with how their conversation turned out. He walked towards a small are where there were no people and started using his fire to creat things in the air around him. He was depicting a story of a dragon who was left by it's parents and had to grow up by itself and learn the basic skills of life. Flying, fire, hunting, everything a dragon would learn from it's parents.

"What do you see boy?" asked Beckett.

((Is he talking to Nathan?))

OCC: Yes

((Oh.))

Nathan stopped his fire show, which had been gathering some people. "Um, could you rephrase your question?" He asks Beckett.

"What do you see?" repeated Beckett.

Nathan colds his head to the side. "What do I see in what?" He asked, still confused as to what the question was asking.

"The cave,"

Nathan put his hands in the air, not knowing what he was talking about. "What the hell are you talking about?!" He yelled.

"I mean where you are!" he shouted

Alice sat up on her legs, head down and hands pressed on her thighs. She took a deep breathe, before standing and beginning to walk toward the forest before looking back. "We have to leave sometime...might as well leave now..." she said sadly, slowly beginning to disappear into the shadows of the looming trees.

Luka chuckled at the bickering. They obviously won't survive here long. As Alice began to walk toward the forest, she shrugged and followed, i mean, why the hell not? You only live once.

"Ok, no more rum for you, honey.... There is no cave." Toko chuckled at Beckett.
Saber watched as Alice walked into the forest. The girl had just noted how dangerous this place was mere moments before. Though she didn't know her, Saber thoguht it wasn't right to let her go off alone to certain death. Saber quickly walked from the tree was standing near and followed. Snow had much the same thought and went with as well.
With little better to do, Toko went after them.

Beckett looked confused and handed the rum back, "Good point, it was surely strong," he admitted, What just happened? he thought

Nathan looked at Alice. "Where are you going?" He asked as he started to follow her. I hope she isn't some sort of spy for whoever, or whatever controls this place. He thought to himself.

Beckett walked up next Nathan, "See anything interesting now boy?" he asked

Alice continued to look forward while speaking. "I'm heading towards the mirror." She said bluntly, not caring if it could cause confusion. Luka cocked her eyebrow at that statement. "So we are just going all this way to a mirror?" she said before stopping and making a seductive pose, "then again, what mirror would refuse to reflect this beautiful figure." Alice rolled her eyes.

Nathan shrugged following the girl, but not without talking and asking a few questions. "Well, you'll need a guard, someone who could protect you." He said, throwing some fire around. "Hey, so you have any special power? Also, what is the mirror? Where is the mirror? What does it do? Why do we need to to go to it? Will it get us home?" He asks.

Beckett followed, "Tell me about this mirror dear girl," said Barkis

"Ohmaigawd, calm your tits with all the questions." Toko looked to Nathan. She turned to Snow, wrapping an arm around one of his and pulling him close. "So, sugar, wh at about you, wha'ts your story?"
Snow's face turned bright red.

Beckett jumped down, "Calm my what's?" he asked

"Oh no, the other guy." Toko waved her staff in Nathan's direction. "The boy babbling questions faster than any normal person could answer them."

Beckett followed, "Where is this boy?" he asked running up next to Toko

Alice continued to walk, ignoring the conversations behind her. A flash of red caught her eye, and when she looked, horror struck her face. Ahead of her was a large and wide tree, and on the bark was blood splatters, in the shape of a large spade. A shriek escaped her mouth as she looked down and saw a playing card, the 10 card of spades.

"I guess we're getting close to the wrathful ***** lady you were talking about earlier." Toko noted Alice's horror. Saber drew out her kunais in anticiaption, gripping them tightly.
Snow looked at Toko. "You should watch your language." He said softly.
"**** **** ******* ***** ****. I will ****ing say whatever the ****ing **** I want."

"I don't even know 1/3 of what she (Toko) said, but I love it," commented Barkis.

Nathan glared at Toko as she insulted him, especially angry considering he was someone who was very curiosity as to how it would look if he killed her right now. But, for now, he needed to focus on what was going on right now. "Who did this?" He asked as he looked at the blood, creating a sword of fire.

Barkis peered from it, "Someone's dead already?" he asked walking closer

Nokomus walked over to the blood spatter. "There are quite a few ways this could have got here. Most of them improbable, but our whole situation is improbable. The most likely is that it was slathered here by hand or paintbrush."

Beckett looked down, "Is it human blood or did an animal died?" he asked

"You can tell by... Ways. But I'm pretty sure it's human." Nokomus explained. The reason she knew this was because her dad abused both her and her cat, and once, only once, when she was extremely bored, she had examined them and noticed human blood was usually a bit darker.

Luka went over and picked up the stray card. After examining it, she stuffed it in her sleeve. Alice saw, but ignored it, still stricken with fear. Suddenly, she began to panic again. "Th-that's fre-fresh blo-blo-blood" she stuttered. She dropped to the floor and began to hyperventilate, her head jolting in different directions, peering into the darkness that shrouded them.

"I see," commented Beckett, "should we prepare ourselves for any ambush?"

"Who did it is obvious." Toko pointed out, "It's clearly human and is likely a warning sign."
"I'd say it's a killer leaving their mark. A claim of the kill." Saber said, speaking for the first time since arriving in Wonderland.
"What makes you say that?" Snow wondered.
"The way it's done, it looks like someone leaving a mark after a kill. It seems sloppy, yet still done almsot as if with pride...."

"....deep into the darkened forest, Alice walked the line. Captured and imprisoned as embodiment of sin" Alice began to sing again, "If it were not for the murderous wake left behind...no one would have suspected that she had ever been..." She looked up to the large bloody spade. "But she escaped....and was changed into a creature of darkness..." An ear piercing scream exploded throughout the forest. Alice quickly turned towards the scream, horrified. What she saw was a sword with an encrusted spade-shaped ruby on the handle, sticking out of the abdomen of a young girl with pale pink hair put into a pony tail and wearing a college cheerleader outfit. Standing above the corpse was a figure blacker than the night, an evil aurora emitting from the figure. On one of it's black hands was a red spade, and when it look up at them, red eyes glowed and glared at them. It withdrew the bloody sword from the poor girl and positioned it, ready to attack.

Nathan whipped around at the sound of the scream, adrenaline pumping through his veins as he heard the scream, and saw the dead girl. "Do or die time." He said, creating his sword again, and making a huge shield of flames surround his arm. The shield was emblazoned with a Phoenix, the sword a ruby on the handle and the blade red with heat. "Let's do this." He said, any emotion, besides fear and anger, gone from his voice and eyes.

Saber threw a round of Kunai at the woman. Snow twirled his staff in his hands, casting a light protective spell over those around him. Toko hurled a ball of black flames from her staff directly at the lady. THe fireball grew larger as it drew nearer. Just before makign contact, the flames vanished along with Toko. The drunken witch reappeared behind the murderous woman, tapping her on the shoulder.

Beckett took out his sword and ran towards the distress.